ACCESSIBILITY / STATEMENT
AccessibilityHow this site is meant to be used by everyone.
Word, Made Flesh is built to be read with a keyboard, a screen reader, magnification, or no motion at all. This page records what has been checked, what is designed in, and what is still not true.
LAST REVIEWED 9 OCTOBER 2026 · STANDARD: WCAG 2.2 LEVEL AA · SCOPE: EVERY PUBLIC PAGE
01 / STANDARDS
THE BENCHMARK
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, at Level AA. WCAG is the standard the Americans with Disabilities Act is usually measured against in practice, and it is the standard this site is checked against.
HOW IT IS APPLIED
Every public page is checked at phone and desktop widths before it is published, and again after any change that could affect reading order, focus, contrast, motion, or language handling. A page that fails is corrected or held.
WHAT THIS IS NOT
This is a working statement about a living site, not a certificate. No third-party audit has been commissioned and no conformance mark is claimed anywhere on this site.
02 / DESIGNED IN
The provisions this site is built to hold, and the reason each one matters.
KEYBOARD
Every control — navigation, reading modes, filters, word panels, media controls — is reachable and operable with the keyboard alone. A skip link goes straight to the page content, and focus is never trapped or hidden.
FOCUS
Focus is visible wherever it lands. When a panel or note closes, focus returns to the control that opened it, so the reading position and the place in the keyboard order are both preserved.
MOTION
Films that open a page play without sound and can be paused or replayed. Where the system asks for reduced motion, films hold on a still frame instead of playing, and the same content and the same entry points are shown.
ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
Greek, Hebrew and Syriac passages are marked with their own language and use fonts that carry the right letterforms and accents, so screen readers pronounce them in the right language and diacritics do not break.
READING AND STUDY MODES
The reader opens in the quietest mode by default and remembers an explicit choice made on the device. Technical apparatus — parsing, filters, witnesses — sits in clearly named tools rather than in the middle of the text.
CONTRAST AND TYPE
Text uses the studio's measured token pairs rather than one-off colors, and small widely spaced capitals are reserved for short metadata so that essential explanation stays at a readable size.
TOUCH AND ZOOM
Shared controls are at least 44 × 44 pixels, and pages are checked for horizontal overflow at 320 pixels wide so content reflows instead of being cut off.
MEANING WITHOUT COLOUR
Evidence classes, active states and current positions are carried by wording and rules as well as colour, so nothing is signalled by hue alone.
03 / WHAT WAS CHECKED
How the standard was tested, rather than assumed.
AUTOMATED SCANNING
Every public route was scanned with an accessibility ruleset covering the machine-checkable WCAG 2.2 AA criteria — names on controls, heading and landmark structure, duplicate identifiers, language attributes, label associations — at phone and desktop widths. As of 9 October 2026 the scans report no violations on any page.
MEASURED CONTRAST
Text and background pairs were checked numerically against the AA contrast minimums, including muted metadata text and placeholder text in inputs.
KEYBOARD WALKTHROUGH
Navigation, reading modes, the parse filters, the word inspector, media controls and dialogs were driven by keyboard to confirm reach, visible focus, escape behaviour and returned focus.
REDUCED MOTION AND MEDIA
Reduced-motion playback was compared against normal playback to confirm the still experience carries the same content, and that films start silent and stay loopable.
REFLOW AND SMALL SCREENS
Pages were checked at 320, 360 and 390 pixels wide for horizontal scrolling, clipped original-script titles and unusable controls.
04 / STILL OPEN
Stated plainly, because a statement that hides its gaps is not a statement.
NO SPECIALIST SCREEN-READER AUDIT
Automated rules cover only part of WCAG. The site has not been tested end to end with VoiceOver, NVDA or JAWS by an accessibility specialist, and it has not been tested with braille displays. Those tests would need to be commissioned separately.
INTERACTIVE RECONSTRUCTIONS
The Ephesus city plate is a drag-and-pan teaching schematic. Every annotated point is also given as plain, selectable text and can be reached without dragging, but the spatial sense of the plate itself is not available to someone who cannot see it.
SOME STUDY CONTENT IS STILL IN PREPARATION
Plain-language meanings for the Mark 2 word inspector, and the wording of some early Syriac witnesses, are held until they can be cited against a named edition. The reader states this plainly where it applies rather than filling the gap.
FILM AND SOUND
The films used so far carry no narration or dialogue, so no captions or audio descriptions are required yet. If sound or spoken content is added, captions and transcripts will be needed before that work is published.
THIRD-PARTY TYPEFACES
The page loads its fonts from a third-party service. If that request is blocked, text falls back to system faces and stays readable, but the studio's own letterforms will not appear.
A DIRECT REPORTING ADDRESS
This statement should carry an address for reporting barriers. It is not published here yet; the line below will be replaced the moment it is.
05 / TELL US
If something here stops you reading, that is a fault in the work — not in you.
Tell us the page, the device, the browser or reader you are using, and what stood in the way. Reports are read, fixed where the fix is ours to make, and the correction is recorded in the project's own process notes.
A DIRECT ADDRESS FOR ACCESSIBILITY FEEDBACK IS NOT PUBLISHED ON THIS PAGE YET.
THIS STATEMENT DESCRIBES THE SITE AS IT STANDS ON 9 OCTOBER 2026. IT CLAIMS NO LEGAL CERTIFICATION, CONFORMANCE MARK OR THIRD-PARTY AUDIT, AND IT IS REVISED AS THE WORK CHANGES.